A Brief List of Everyone Who Died
Vivia Font in the Finborough Theatre’s production of A Brief List of Everyone Who Died.. Photographer: Philm
Synopsis
Graciela would really like everyone to stop dying. After the scarring loss of her beloved dog Buster at the age of five, Graciela decides that no one she loves will ever die. But stopping death is easier said than done. Time rolls on inescapably and, as she grows, Graciela will, like everyone else, gain and lose the people most important to her to the eternal absence of mortality. Wickedly funny and deeply humane, A Brief List of Everyone Who Died tells the story of all the deaths that make up a life.
Nominated for 4 of London’s Off West End Awards and published by Bloomsbury/Methuen. Available here for purchase.
Production History
Production: The Finborough Theatre
Directed by Alex Howarth
London, England; May 2023
Online Reading: The Finborough Theatre
Directed by Alex Howarth
London, England; June 2022
Finalist for the Off West End Awards
Reading: New York University
Directed by David Mendizábal
New York, NY; May 2018
“A precarious balance of pain and humour is deftly retained throughout, with astute observations on the profound and banal ways that death disrupts our lives.”
“★★★★★ Rice’s lively and often funny script also has necessary moments of desperate sadness but never becomes maudlin”
“★★★★ Heaves with the most delightful bunch of characters one could ever meet ”
“Charts a life in which love and loss are shown to be inextricably and inevitably bound. The humour is wickedly pithy, the sadness bittersweet. There will be tears, of laughter and empathy. Bring your tissues.”
“Funny, poignant, and immensely humane. it packs so much in that its characters stay with you long afterwards. This is in every way a gem. Script, acting and direction. Rush to see it.”